Patrick Nolan

Patrick Nolan joined Penguin Books as Associate
Publisher and Editor in Chief in 2012 after serving for twelve
years as Trade Paperback Sales Director for Penguin Group. Now
overseeing the editorial direction and shape of Penguin Books'
publishing program which includes many current bestsellers
including Alexander Hamilton, The Boys in the
Boat, The Perfect Nanny (Chanson Douce), and
Drawdown. As an editor, his list of current and
forthcoming authors includes Matt Haig (How To Stop Time),
Alex Gilvarry (Eastman was Here), Anders Rydell (The
Book Thieves), Matthias Hollwich (New Aging), Daniel
Klein (Every Time They Find the Meaning of Life, They Change
It), Chris Anderson and David Sally (The Numbers
Game), Benjamin Taylor (The Hue and Cry and Our
House), and Jenn Agg (I Hear She's a Real Bitch). In
his previous role as Sales Director he contributed to such
long-running bestsellers as Eat, Pray, Love; The
Omnivore's Dilemma; The Secret Life of Bees; The
Kite Runner; and The Help. He also served five years
as Marketing Director of Perigee and has been Associate Publisher
of Riverhead Books and Trade Paperback Marketing Director for
Portfolio and Sentinel. Before coming to Penguin Group, Patrick was
Sales Director for Disney/Hyperion and worked at Houghton Mifflin
and Waterstones Booksellers. He is the co-chair of the Trade
Executive Advisory Committee of the AAP and has taught in NYU's MA
in Publishing Program for three years. He is the Board Chair for
Animal Care Centers of NYC, the second largest open admissions
shelter in North America. He has a BA in History from Columbia
College and an MA in Peace Studies from the University of Ulster.
He lives in Brooklyn with his husband and two dogs.